01 Psycho Killer02 Cities03 Once In A Lifetime04 Mind05 My Big Hands (Fall Through The Cracks)06 Big Business - I Zimbra07 Swamp08 Take Your Time09 Houses In Motion10 What A Day That Was11 Life During Wartime12 Take Me To The River

"Here come the free ones - they're letting them in free now, finally.

With the cops in close pursuit". (DB)

"Ok - it ain't nothin' but a house party!" (CF).

This recording is very good quality indeed and stereo. Arcorman re-seeded this on Dime recently, but it's so shrill, I thought it could do with a little work.

On the one hand, the recording here is *slightly* technically better than the LP ("Chicken Shack") recording, which is from a different source. On the other hand, the bass is slightly distorted, and there is more audience sound - both clapping in close proximity, and mass cheering and whistling in the background.

The bass was raised and the treble considerably reduced as the master recording I worked on here (found on Dime) recently ... shrill didn't begin to cover it, it was painful to the ears. As pointed out and discussed elsewhere though - the more sharing of masters / unheard / even pre FMs etc, the better.

Got to admit, despite my comments weighting towards the LP / different recording of this elsewhere, this sounds damn fine to me now...on listening to Take Your Time for a moment I found myself thinking it sound like a mixing desk recording to my ears!

I am aware I torrented an LP version, and this is a 'mix' of the mastertape that was put on Dime.

BUT...where the LP version had great 'feel' this is technically wonderful, and the version on Dime was so shrill as to give you headache within two minutes. The guy who recorded it clearly has good equipment and on another otherwise fine quality recording (from what I've heard so far), he makes some excuse about the venue acoustics for the extreme lack of bass. Ahem, pardon my french, but that's bullshit.

Worse, the Dime version had a 'burger' or 'toothpaste' waveform, for some bizarre reason.

But despite all that, underneath all that it's still a brilliant recording, and arguably far less flat than the MX / FM recordings of that year (ie Werchter and Montreux which like some recordings of that ilk are good technically but lack vibrancy - not just in the way it's recorded / mixed but in the performance too, sadly).

Take a trial step and see if you enjoy this one. You'll be one of a small handful of people in the world right now (and yes, it's a Saturday night, but some of us are skint) - and I don't think you'll regret it.